Each year tens of thousands of activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). As we get closer to January, explore our interactive map to see HMD activities happening in 2026. Enter your post code to find activities near you - those marked 'public' are open to everyone.
The Service took place on 27th January 2026 at 11am - 12.30pm, organisations involved were the Folkestone Town Council as organisers, local secondary schools were invited and reps from 4 local schools attended and each spoke about a specific subje...
Curatorial Talk: Witnessing
Survivor Speaker Testimony: Eva Clarke BEM
Two of our S6 pupils took part in the Lesson's From Auschwitz Project towards the end of 2025; as part of their next steps for this project the pupils were keen to share their learning and experience with younger pupils at our school.
We d...
Classes in the lower school S1-S3 read Tom Palmer's "Five Words" story in their English classes. The classes then reflected on the impact of the story in various ways such as class discussions, written reflections etc. Pupils were very moved beca...
Generation 2 Generation Speaker at St Helen's School, Northwood
A Generation 2 Generation Speaker gave a presentation to a large group of Year 9 students and some invited Year 13 students.
Assembly - as described above all students attended an online assembly delivered by a subject expert (History teacher) using HMD resources as a guide for the content to include in the assembly.
Our S3 classes have been using the Life Stories to remember the lives of people affected by the Holocaust.
They have been working in small groups to research, and to share key information about these stories, passing them on.
On 25...
Exeter Cathedral opening ceremony followed by a series of talks at MINT Methodist Church. Family testimonies were shared including those who escaped persecution thanks to the Kindertransport scheme. We heard how the Roma Gyspy and Sinti peoples fa...
The Holocaust Educational TrustLessons from Auschwitz ambassadors led assemblies four times for the four school houses. Each form had a representative who lit a candle at the end of the assembly. A number of classes (I'm not sure how many) listene...
A week of 15 minute assemblies (26th - 30th January) were held for staff and each year group, Y7-12. The assembly was one I had made myself, using the HMD theme of 'Bridging Generations'. It also included a moment of reflection, with Martin Niemol...
Assembly using HMD resources to whole school - looking at specific stories of families and relating it to wider theme of why we choose to remember certain events.
Wellington School - Memorial Day Commemoration Waterside Arts Theatre
Our Year 13s who have been doing the My Voice Programme with the Jewish Federation in Manchester presented their projects at the Waterside Arts Theatre.
As a Subject Leader, I run the Holocaust assemblies for each year group at our school. This year, I started on 26/01/2026. In this year's assemblies, I used the HMD theme “Bridging Generations".
We delivered a Holocaust memorial assembly. We had an assembly for year 7 with an outline of the escalating treatment of the Jewish community in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and focused on the fact that such extreme acts began with hate, prejudi...
Assemblies held all week in my school by myself to commemorate HMD
Seymour Kelly from Generation to Generation came to delivery his mothers testimony to YR9 who have been studying the Holocaust
Two of our students' grandfather took place in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 (Mieczysław Juszczakiewicz, age 99). For their A Level History coursework, they are writing about the reasons for the failure of the uprising, and has included personal int...
We held to live streaming options for students to attend, this was provided by the Literacy trust.
this was held on the the day, at 10:30 and 12:00
West Mains School (ASN): Making Memories
As a school for children with complex and severe learning need, we wanted to make our HMD activity meaningful for them. We expanded on the HMD theme of memories across the generations. We invited fa...
Okehampton College: Read a poem and lit candles at 8pm
In the week leading up to Holocaust Memorial Day, our 17 Beliefs and Values Ambassadors delivered a powerful and thoughtfully planned assembly to the entire student cohort. The assembly...